4 Finalists Go To Judges Today
After 11 weeks, hundreds of stories and thousands of votes, four stories are finalists in our Better Sex Erotic Fiction Contest:
Semifinals Week 1 Winner: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs by Annie Kerns
Semifinals Week 2 Winner: Beach Break by B. B. Giddens
Runner Up 1: Innocent Corruption by Larissa Lyons
Runner up 2: Temple of Venus by Anna Bookner
The Grand Prize winner will be determined by a 3 judge panel. Four stories (two semifinalists and two runner ups) went to the judges today. We will post judge's decision here the day after Labor Day (September 2nd). We modified our original idea from 3 stories to 4 stories as "Finalists" after voting irregularities were discovered last week. Temple of Venus, the best finishing second place story during our contest, was elevated to winning Week 9 replacing the story that experienced voting irregularities. I blogged extensively about this problem in my The Way Things Go Sometimes post on Friday August 22nd.
Vote for your favorite!
The $2,500 Grand Prize will be awarded by our 3 judge panel. We want to know what story you like best. We will update this blog posts with links as soon as they are available.
Good luck to all authors! Don't forget the deadline for the Fall Better Sex Erotic Fiction Contest is November 1st. Fall will be similar to Summer in the way the contest operates. Full details will be posted here next week. If you would like to get a jump on our Fall contest, send stories to:
siiweb @ BetterSex .com "Fall Fiction Contest submission" as the subject.
Wondering why we created the Better Sex Erotic Fiction Contest = use that link to read my explanation to one of our writers in our Revolution blog.
Yes, our "Ivoted" code still knocks $5.00 off your order if you vote for your favorite story in this week's non-binding poll.
VOTE NOW
Thanks,
Martin
Msmith @ BetterSex . com
Monday, August 25, 2008
Better Sex Summer Erotic Fiction - Finalists
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I realized when I added a fourth story into the finals that at least 3 writers would be upset. I made a tough call in an impossible situation. There were other options, but this is the solution I reached after thinking about how to make an unfair situation (cheating) fair. We did not have an algorithm alert in Week 9, but we reviewed the voting patterns anyway and they seemed natural. It didn't appear the poll was hacked in weeek 9. This is why I didn't elevate the second place story of that week. I decided to move a story that was second its week but would have won week 9 and several other weeks due to the number of votes it received. My next difficult decision was what to do about the finals. There is no way to recast history, so I decided ot expand the finals to 4 stories. This decision had nothing to do with anything other than a desire to right a wrong -the cheating - in the best way I could think of. Stories have gone to the Judges and they are scheudled to meet tomorrow to discuss their opionions about who should win. I email each of the semifinalists today to explain my decision. BetterSex.com and I will be proud of whatever story the judges award the Grand Prize too as they are all excellent, erotic, well written stories.
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